Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----that there was a series of meeting and Mr. Ó Foghlú does not know whether there are minutes or not, and if they were there he has not seen them, and then somebody says some of them are online.

When the Minister was going into the Dáil to deal with this, how was Mr. Ó Foghlú preparing parliamentary replies, which Mr. Ó Foghlú, as Secretary General, must sign-off on, for the Minister if Mr. Ó Foghlú had not even an awareness of whether ministerial meetings were happening? The Department provides lots of briefing notes. I question the whole procedure in relation to the public accountability, both in the Dáil Chamber and in here, specifically today. Mr. Ó Foghlú, as the Secretary General, does not even know whether there were minutes or not. I do not mean to personalise it. It is a comment on how Accounting Officers should know the key facts of whether meetings happened or not.